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THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW DEPARTMENT -

WikiLeaks: FBI Hunts the
9/11 Gang That Got Away

The FBI has launched a manhunt for a previously unknown team of men
suspected to be part of the 9/11 attacks.

Secret documents reveal that the three Qatari men conducted
surveillance on the targets, provided “support” to the plotters and had
tickets for a flight to Washington on the eve of the atrocities.

The suspected terrorists flew from London to New York on a British
Airways flight three weeks before the attacks.

They allegedly carried out surveillance at the World Trade Centre, the
White House and in Virginia, the US state where the Pentagon and CIA
headquarters are located.

Ten days later they flew to Los Angeles, where they stationed
themselves in a hotel near the airport which the FBI has now
established was paid for by a “convicted terrorist”, who also paid for
their airline tickets.

Hotel staff have told investigators they saw pilot uniforms in their
room along with computer print outs detailing pilot names, flight
numbers and times and packages addressed to Syria, Afghanistan,
Jerusalem and Jordan.

On September 10 they were booked on an American Airlines flight from
Los Angeles to Washington, but failed to board. The following day the
same Boeing 757 aircraft was hijacked by five terrorists and crashed
into the Pentagon.

But, instead of boarding the American flight, the Qatari suspects –
named as Meshal Alhajri, Fahad Abdulla and Ali Alfehaid - flew back to
London on a British Airways flight before returning to Qatar. Their
current location is unknown.

Investigators are also hunting a fourth man, Mohamed Al Mansoori, who
they say supported the alleged terrorist cell while they were in the US.

The man, who is from the United Arab Emirates, previously lived in Long
Beach, Los Angeles. His current location is also unknown, and US
officials recommended that he is put on an international terror watch
list because he “may pose a threat to aviation in the US and abroad”.

The details of the secret 9/11 team have emerged in a secret American
government document obtained by the Wikileaks website and passed to The
Daily Telegraph. It was sent between the American Embassy in Doha and
the Department for Homeland Security in Washington.

The document, sent on 11th February 2010, states: “Mr Al Mansoori is
currently under investigation by the FBI for his possible involvement
in the 11 September 2001 attacks. He is suspected of aiding people who
entered the US before the attacks to conduct surveillance of possible
targets and providing other support to the hijackers.”

Details of the unknown 9/11 alleged plotters has never previously been
disclosed. An official inquiry into the 9/11 attacks, which killed
nearly 3,000 people, indicated that the hijackers may have received
assistance in Los Angeles but investigators did not publicly provide
more details.

The 9/11 Commission report, published in July 2004, states that at
least two of the hijackers previously visited Los Angeles but, at the
time, investigators appeared to have little information on their
movements. The report states they had a "brief stay in Los Angeles
about which we know little".

Only one person – Zacarias Moussaoui - has been tried and convicted
over involvement in the 9/11 attacks as all the terrorists died in the
crashed planes. Moussaoui, accused of being the twentieth hijacker, was
sentenced to life in prison.

The secret American document contains detailed information about the
movements of the three alleged Qatari plotters.

They took BA flight 185 from London to New York on 15th August, 2001,
and the memo alleges that they subsequently conducted “surveillance” on
potential targets ahead of the 9/11 attacks. It states: “They visited
the World Trade Centre, the Statue of Liberty, the White House and
various areas in Virginia.”

They then flew on an American Airlines flight from Washington to Los
Angeles, arriving on 24th August and checking into a single room at a
hotel near the airport. They paid for the room with cash and during the
last few days of their stay requested that their room should not be
cleaned.

The cable states: “Hotel cleaning staff grew suspicious of the men
because they noticed pilot type uniforms, several laptops and several
cardboard boxes addressed to Syria, Jerusalem, Afghanistan and Jordan
in the room on previous cleaning visits.

“The men had a smashed cellular phone in the room and a cellular phone
attached by wire to a computer. The room also contained pin feed
computer paper print outs with headers listing pilot names, airlines,
flight numbers, and flight times.”

While in the US, they were aided by Mohamed Ali Mohamed Al Mansoori.
The secret document also states that the three Qatari men spent a week
travelling with Mr Al Mansoori to “different destinations in
California”.

The Qatari men were scheduled to board American Airlines Flight 144 on
September 10th from Los Angeles to Washington but did not turn up.

They instead boarded a British Airways flight to London, before flying
back to Doha on another BA flight.

The following day the same American Airlines aircraft, flying on route
AA77, was hijacked as it returned from Washington and crashed into the
Pentagon, killing 184 people.

It is not known whether the FBI believe that the men were simply
assisting the hijackers or were a fifth cell who pulled out at the
final moment. Alternatively, they may have been planning an attack on
the West Coast of America or even London which was abandoned or went
wrong.

Mr Al Mansoori has never been publicly named in connection with the
9/11 attacks. The three Qatari men were included on an FBI list of more
than 300 people who were wanted for questioning in connection with the
9/11 attacks, which was leaked in 2002.

At the time, the FBI stressed it was not a list of suspects, but merely
parties they thought might have information useful to the investigation.

The US embassy cable obtained by the Daily Telegraph was written by
Mirembe Nantongo, the deputy chief of mission in Doha. It was marked
“priority” and sent to the office of Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary
of State, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and the CIA.

Mr Al Mansoori’s visa was revoked after the information about him came
to light, but “his name was not watchlisted in the class system”,
suggesting he may have managed to leave America.

An orbiting NASA telescope is finding whole new worlds of possibilities
in the search for alien life, spotting more than 50 potential planets
that appear to be in the habitable zone.

In just a year of peering out at a small slice of the galaxy, the
Kepler telescope has discovered 1,235 possible planets outside our
solar system. Amazingly, 54 of them are seemingly in the zone that
could be hospitable to life – that is, not too hot or too cold, Kepler
chief scientist William Borucki said.

Until now, only two planets outside our solar system were even thought
to be in the "Goldilocks zone." And both those discoveries are highly
disputed.

Fifty-four possibilities is "an enormous amount, an inconceivable
amount," Borucki said. "It's amazing to see this huge number because up
to now, we've had zero."

The more than 1,200 newfound celestial bodies are not confirmed as
planets yet, but Borucki estimates 80 percent of them will eventually
be verified. At least one other astronomer believes Kepler could be 90
percent accurate.

After that, it's another big step in proving that a confirmed planet
has some of the basic conditions needed to support life, such as the
proper size, composition, temperature and distance from its star. More
advanced aspects of habitability such as atmospheric conditions and the
presence of water and carbon require telescopes that aren't built yet.

Just because a planet is in the habitable zone doesn't mean it has
life. Mars is a good example of that. And even if some these planets
are found to contain life, it may not be intelligent life; it could be
bacteria or mold or some kind of life form people can't even imagine.

All the celestial bodies Kepler looks at are in our Milky Way galaxy,
but they are so far away that traveling there is not a realistic
option. In some cases it would take many millions of years with current
technology.

But what Kepler is finding in distant parts of the galaxy could be
applied to exploring closer stars, astronomers say.

"Our grandchildren will have to decide what's the next step," Borucki
said at a NASA news conference. "Do they want to go there? Do they want
to send a robot?"

Before Wednesday, the count of confirmed planets outside the solar
system stood at 519. That means Kepler could triple the number. And
those findings are from Kepler's scanning of just one four-hundredth of
the night sky, so the actual number of planets out there is presumably
hundreds of times greater, Borucki said.

That is exciting to astronomers, since the more planets there are, the
greater the odds that life exists elsewhere in the universe.

Yale University astronomer Debra Fischer, who wasn't part of the Kepler
team but serves as an outside expert for NASA, said the new information
"gives us a much firmer footing" to hope for worlds that could harbor
life.

"I feel different today, knowing these new Kepler results, than I did a
week ago," Fischer said. She said Kepler "has blown the lid off of
everything we know about extrasolar planets."

Another outside astronomer, Lisa Kaltenegger of Harvard University,
called the findings "exciting good news."

Kepler also found that there are many more relatively small planets
than there are giant planets. That is encouraging, too: Astronomers
think a planet needs to be solid – rocky like Earth or Mars – for life
to develop. And very large planets are unlikely to be solid; they are
more prone to be gas behemoths like Jupiter.

Sixty-eight of the planet candidates Kepler found are considered
Earth-sized, including the first ones ever discovered to be smaller
than Earth. An additional 288 planets were less than twice the size of
Earth, which is still in that optimum zone for life.

Only five of the 54 potentially habitable celestial bodies are close to
the size of Earth, while the rest approach the gassy girths of Neptune
or Jupiter, Borucki said.

To be in the habitable zone, a planet has to be the proper distance
from its star so that it could have liquid water on its surface, at
least sometimes. NASA considers habitable-zone temperatures to be
roughly between 0 degrees and 200 degrees Fahrenheit. The proper
distance varies by star; smaller, weaker stars, for example, would
require planets to be closer to be habitable.

Because of the various factors that could make planets more prone to
life, University of California Santa Cruz astronomer Greg Laughlin
created a formula that puts a dollar value on these far-off planets
with the idea that the first planet that is incredibly similar to Earth
would have a value of $1 million.

Until Wednesday, the highest value Laughlin assigned to an exoplanet,
which is what astronomers call a planet outside our solar system, was a
measly $158. One of Kepler's new discoveries is worth nearly a
quarter-million dollars, Laughlin figures.

Kepler was launched in 2009 and orbits the sun between Earth and Mars.
It needs time to find planets, identifying them by watching them
repeatedly move past the star they orbit.

Kepler scientists are strict about calling candidate planets confirmed.
Of 400 candidate planets announced last year, only nine of Kepler's
discoveries had been confirmed before Wednesday.

Of the more than 800 new candidates, both in and out of the habitable
zone, only six are confirmed, all way too hot for life. And they are
strange – all densely packed and circling a single star. Five of them
are closer to their star than Mercury is to our sun, and they move in
precise circular and stable orbits.

That strange star system is 2,000 light years from Earth, according to
a separate study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. A light
year is nearly 6 trillion miles.

Trembling with fear, ten-year-old Fae
Jackson darted out of her bedroom and down the stairs to her mum.She had just seen the wispy
image of a person - who had hissed into her ear: "Can you hear me?"It was the first of hundreds
of ghost sightings that would plague the young girl and lead her to
believe she may have psychic powers.Incredibly, Fae's younger
brother, Ashley, has now started reporting similar eerie sightings -
despite not knowing of Fae's.Mum Lynn has come to accept
her kids have supernatural powers and that, just like the movie The
Sixth Sense, her children can "see dead people".To Lynn, this is anything but
a special gift - she sees it as a curse she would love to break.The 39-year-old, from Waltham
Cross, Herts, says: "It feels like someone is bullying my children and
I can't do anything about it."It would have been easier to
deal with if they had an illness. At least I would know where to go for
treatment."Fae has got used to it and
now she enjoys having this ability - but Ashley hates it."Surveys in the UK show that
one in five Brits have seen or felt the presence of a ghost - and that
53 per cent believe in psychic ability. The research coincides with
Matt Damon's new film, Hereafter, about a reluctant medium. Fae, now
13, and Ashley, eight, can relate to that.Stay-at-home mum Lynn says:
"The first sign was when Fae started primary school."She used to tell me one of
her friends was purple or the teacher was red. So one day I told her,
'No darling that boy isn't purple'. She said, 'Mummy I mean the colour
around him'."Now they both believe Fae was
recognising auras, the glow said to radiate around a person.Ghostly sightings started when
Fae turned ten, and appeared nearly every day. Once Fae reported her
bed being shaken by a frustrated female ghost.Another time she said she
could feel the energy of an old woman against her back while showering.
She even says that at times she can feel ghosts playing with her hair.Lynn says: "How do you deal
with something like that? She was terrified. I did start off thinking
it might be attention-seeking, but you know your own children. She was
shy and not a story teller."In her skinny jeans and patent
Dr Martens, petite Fae today seems at ease with her powers but her huge
blue eyes still betray her fear during one of the most terrifying
incidents.She says: "I had walked out of
my bedroom and there was a mirror at the other end of the hall. In my
reflection I saw a person's head on my shoulder. It was red. I was so
scared. But now I understand that it is my grandad and that he is my
spirit guide, who is protecting me."Fae matter-of-factly goes on
to relate how she encounters these unexpected visitors.She says: "It's not like
seeing something solid like a chair, it's like a glimpse of the person."Mostly I can sense something
or feel the energy there and the picture and details come into my head.
Like their name can pop into my head or how they died."If I close my eyes I see
their picture building up. It happens so quickly. I have all this
information in a couple of seconds."I used to be really scared, I
wouldn't like the dark and I wouldn't like looking in the mirror in
case I saw something."The double blow came when
Ashley began to see ghosts too.He refuses to discuss the idea
that he may be psychic. Lynn says: "We had been careful to keep
everything that was going on with Fae from Ashley. I didn't want him to
be frightened. Then, about a year ago, he refused to go into our
conservatory and wouldn't go to the toilet alone."I asked him what the matter
was and he told me, 'There's a head following me around'."My blood went cold. How do
you tell a seven-year-old that some people can see dead people?"Lynn's husband, David, 45, is
clearly concerned and supportive yet, like Ashley, prefers not to
discuss the issue.But supernatural powers may
run in the family. Both David's dad and Lynn's gran believed they saw
spirits.Lynn says: "Fae has tried to
tell Ashley it's OK and happens to her but he doesn't believe her."She's intrigued by it now but
he hates it and is terrified."Through talking to other
mediums, Fae has learned to cope with the sightings but Ashley is very
much in denial. Instead, a friend who does distant healing - called
Theta Healing - has focused on Ashley, asking that he doesn't see
anything frightening. Lynn believes this has reduced the sightings but
says he still has what he calls "bad thoughts".Fae, who has learned to
channel her ability into learning Reiki healing, says: "I can close
down my chakras - points in the body from the head to the feet."You do it by thinking of
those points as lightbulbs and you shut them off so you are closed to
the spirits. I can also ask them to go away and I can imagine a white
light around me to protect myself."When it first started I was
seeing spirits every day but now it isn't as often."Fae adds: "I have only told
one friend at school, she was fine about it and accepts it."But I wouldn't tell anyone
else because I think they would tease me. I would be the witch girl."Lynn and Fae plan to write a
book together on their experiences. They have also launched Facebook
group Children With Spirit.Lynn says: "One of my issues
is that there's no real help out there for people like us."Talking to other psychic
children has really helped Fae, so hopefully it can help others too."Names have been changedHave you got a psychic child?
Tell us your story. Email features@the-sun.co.uk Source: The Sunhttp://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/3383014/My-children-see-dead-people.html

- HISTORY'S MYSTERIES DEPARTMENT -

Architect Says Great Pyramid Has Two Secret Chambers

A French architect campaigning
for a new exploration of the 4,500-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza said
on Thursday that the edifice may contain two chambers housing funereal
furniture.

Jean-Pierre Houdin -- who was rebuffed three years ago by Egypt in his
appeal for a probe into how the Pyramid was built -- said 3-D
simulation and data from a US egyptologist, Bob Brier, pointed to two
secret chambers in the heart of the structure.

The rooms would have housed furniture for use in the afterlife by the
pharaoh Khufu, also known as Cheops in Greek, he told a press
conference.

"I am convinced there are antechambers in this pyramid. What I want is
to find them," he said.

In March 2007, Houdin advanced the theory that the Great Pyramid had
been built inside-out using an internal spiral ramp, as opposed to an
external ramp as had long been suggested.

He proposed mounting a joint expedition of Egyptian antiquities experts
and French engineers, using infrared, radar and other non-invasive
methods to check out the hypothesis.

The idea was nixed by Egypt's antiquities department. A Canadian team
from Laval University in Quebec will seek permission this year to carry
out thermal imaging from outside the Pyramid to explore the theory,
Houdin said.

Houdin said a pointer to the antechambers came from the existence of
such rooms in the pyramid of Snefru, Khufu's father. It was possible a
similar design was retained for the Great Pyramid.

In addition, blocks in the northern wall of the king's chamber in the
Great Pyramid indicate an overlooked passage which led to the
hypothesised chambers and also enabled the funeral party to exit, he
added.

An introduction to dragons – the granddaddy of all legendary monsters –
has already featured in these pages. Now the Zoological Director of the
Centre for Fortean Zoology in Devon expands on the theme by discussing
some of the varieties of dragons once believed to haunt these shores.

The dragon comes in a dazzling array of forms. The best known in the
West is the true dragon or firedrake. This is the classic dragon: a
gigantic quadrupedal reptile, with vast bat like wings. Armed with
razor teeth and claws, and a mighty tail, its most formidable weapon
was the white-hot jets of flame it gouted at its victims. These
monsters were considered to be the most magickal of beasts, with powers
such as shape-shifting, self-regeneration, and mind reading attributed
to them. They were covered in impenetrable scales and had only one
vulnerable spot.

The wyvern was much like the firedrake except it bore only one pair of
legs. It was smaller than the true dragon and seldom breathed fire. It
did however carry a deadly sting in the tail and could spread disease
and pestilence.

The lindorm or worm was a huge limbless reptile. Instead of breathing
fire it spat venom or spewed poison gas. It could also crush prey in
its steely coils. It could rejoin severed portions of its body and was
hence very hard to kill.

The basilisk or cockatrice was the smallest but most death-dealing
member of the dragon clan. It was said to have hatched from a cock’s
egg incubated by a toad or a rooster. It resembled a tiny snake with a
rooster’s comb. It’s gaze brought instant death to all it looked upon,
including itself. The basilisk’s reflection was fatal to itself. The
great deserts of the Middle East were attributed to the baleful glare
of hordes of basilisks.

In the early 19th century folklorist Mary Trevelyan interviewed many
elderly people living in the Glamorgan area of Wales. They recounted
memories from their youth (early 19th century) of a race of winged
serpents said to inhabit the forest around Penllyne Castle. They had
crested heads and feathery wings. The serpents were brightly coloured
and sparkled as if covered with jewels. They rested coiled on the
ground but if threatened would attack by swooping down at their
aggressors.

The snakes killed poultry and were described as ‘the terrors of
farmyards and coverts’. Many were shot for their depredations of
livestock. One woman recalled that her grandfather shot one after it
attacked him. Its skin had hung for years on the wall at his farm.
Tragically this artifact was discarded after his death: a fact that
would make any modern day cryptozoologist wince.

A dragon skin was once said to hang in the church in Sexhow, Cleveland.
The forest-dwelling worm was slain by a knight and the skin kept as a
relic hung on pegs in the church. This skin has also long since
vanished. Cromwell’s men probably destroyed it after the Civil War. A
portion of the hide of the Lambton worm was supposedly kept on display
at Lambton castle. It was said to resemble cow’s hide. The specimen was
lost when the castle was demolished in the 18th century.

Amazing as it may sound, the dragon seems to have a basis in fact and
it still haunts the wild, and sometimes not so wild corners of our
strange little planet. Modern sightings include a huge, winged reptile
that terrorized the San Antonio valley, Texas, for several months in
1976. More recently a horned, black-scaled dragon seen by five hundred
witnesses in July 2002 in Lake Tianchie, northeast China.

Haitians are 50% Catholic and 100% Voodoo priests - says a military
member of Brazilian peace forces, that are working in the capital
Port-au-Prince since 2004. The mysticism of the inhabitants of the
western part of the island of Hispaniola, the Caribbean, is considered
taboo by most of the western world and has little relationship with rag
dolls targeted needles.

Haitian Voodoo has its root in Africa. The practices are widespread in
the Caribbean nation, whose deep misery gives to gives the nation the
worst Human Development Index (HDI) of the Americas.

Brazilian soldiers who are part of MINUSTAH (United Nations Mission for
the Stabilization of Haiti), they remember of to have found in the
street, at the beginning of the mission, pieces of human bodies, with
chest cutted and eyes gouged out. Believe they were victims of voodoo
priests, the "bokors", who practice black magic

The brazilian militaries still remember themselves having collected the
testimony of an Italian priest who was kidnapped together a novice nun
by practitioners of voodoo. The nun was raped repeatedly, including
with sticks and wooden stacks, in a supposed religious ritual. The
victims managed to escape when another bandits group attacked the
firsts and was this episode that created the chance of escape

Apart from the rituals of death and purification, the voodoo includes
the mystical transformation of humans into "zombies". This is one of
the biggest fears for the secular society. The haitians believe that a
zombie is created from the sorcery of the wizard, who would make
himself a controler of his victim, able to manipulate the will the
person's soul. For scholars of practice Vodouisants are, however, the
alleged lethargy of zombies may be resulted from the application of
tetrodotoxin, a neurotoxin found in puffer fish species.

Article 246 of the Haitian Penal Code makes clear reference to the
poisoning made with the aim to produce a "lethargic" state in a person,
the main characteristic of those Haitian zombies. "Are classified as
envevenamento all attacks on a person's life, the effect of substances
that can lead to death sooner or later, independent of the epoch when
that these substances had been applied or administered, and whatever
the consequences of this procedure.

If most of the practitioners od the Haitian voodoo practiced mixed with
other religions such as Catholicism, after 2010 earthquake, when at
least 220 000 people lost their lives and, mainly, with the worsening
of the cholera outbreak at the end of last year, sorcerers of voodoo
passed to be hostilized by the population. At Port au Prince the
reaction against voodoo practioners can be something violent.

In houses whose roofs have a sort of scarecrow with red rags, at least
40 priests were murdered, says Brazil's ambassador to Haiti, Igor
Kipman. Part of the population attributed to them the responsibility
for the deaths of more than 3300 people that were victims from cholera.